The Crafty Red Fox

28/09/2025

I wonder if I should keep making tops or if I should make an extra wild hat 🤔

28/09/2025

Making up some cute Boho Goddess Crop tops in preparation for !

After being a partying punter back in the very early days of this festival, it's going to be a very different experience as one of the vendors!

Come and find me at 3 Cool Chicks, where you'll find my fabulous crochet festival fashions, Mystical Miss Vee will be there with witchy brooms, hair stick wands and to tell your fortune, and you can pop all your goodies in a super canvas satchel from Shaz!

See you in a 4 weeks!

Pattern: Boho Goddess Crop Top by

27/09/2025

4 weeks until you will find me at Earth Frequency! I'll be there with the rest of 3 Cool Chicks, so pop in for funky boho crochet, cool canvas bags and a tarot reading!

Buckle up Earth Frequency… the countdown to our 20th Anniversary Edition at Woodfordia is well and truly on!

✨🎶🔊💃🏯🕺🔊🎶✨

17/09/2025

The van is packed with all kinds of funky festival threads, and we are ready to roll bright and early tomorrow morning!
See you on the weekend at the
You'll find me with !

11/09/2025

A little info about processing flax in to linen 💖🧶🦊

Flax is a tall, slender plant that’s been grown for thousands of years....not for food, but for its fibres, which are used to make linen.

Before you can wear it, sleep on it, or embroider it, though, it has to go through quite a bit of hard work.

And one of the key steps in that process is scutching!

After harvesting, the flax stalks are retted....soaked in water or laid in damp fields...to break down the natural glue that holds the plant’s tough outer layer to the softer fibres inside.

Once dried, the stalks are brittle and ready for processing.

That’s where scutching comes in.....

Scutching is the step where the woody outer parts of the flax stalk, called shives, are stripped away to expose the fine, thread-like fibres hidden within.

The process usually follows breaking, where the stalks are crushed between wooden blades or rollers to crack them open.

To scutch, a worker lays the broken flax over a scutching board and scrapes or strikes it with a scutching knife....a flat, blunt wooden blade shaped a bit like a paddle.

The motion knocks off the broken woody bits, allowing the usable flax fibres to separate cleanly.

It’s dusty, repetitive work that takes skill and rhythm, often done in the open or in a dedicated shed to contain the mess...bit like my office!

The result is a bundle of long, golden fibres...ready for hackling (combing) and then spinning into linen thread.

So while the finished linen might be crisp, smooth, and elegant, it all starts with a handful of flax stalks and a fair bit of scraping....I'd rather buy the finished product please!

07/09/2025

Blood Moon Eclipse 08.09.2025

06/09/2025

Teaching myself to use my new Mayan spinner, in front of the bush tv, listening to the rain while sister JoJo puts on a stew for our dinner 💖
How's your Saturday going? 😊🧶🌿🦊

16/08/2025

Catch my crochet, get a card reading, and pick up a groovy bag! Look for 3 Cool Chicks at the Mitchell Creek Rock and Blues Fest!

An Australian Premier Music Festival hosted on a private 100 acre property up in Noosa Hinterland's beautiful Mary Valley, in Queensland's amazing Sunshine Coast region. Escape to the bush-land for an adventure-filled weekend of rock blues and roots music. Enjoy FREE camping, and 2 x alternating sta...

02/08/2025

All set up at Greazefest!! Come and say Hi!

31/07/2025

Who will we see at tomorrow???
Swipe to see some of my faves from a selection of of original 40s to 70s vintage I'll be bringing along with my crochet tops, vests and shawls!
Make sure to pop in and see myself, and at 3 Cool Chicks!
We will be there all weekend!

29/07/2025

This is such a cool discovery!

That's a remarkable archaeological find! A 4,700-year-old ball of yarn discovered near Lake Bienne (Bielersee), specifically in Lüscherz, Switzerland, dates back to approximately 2700 BC.

This discovery is incredibly significant for several reasons:

Exceptional Preservation: Organic materials like yarn rarely survive for millennia. Its preservation suggests unique environmental conditions, likely an anaerobic (oxygen-free) environment such as peat bog or lake sediment, which prevented decomposition. This kind of preservation offers invaluable insights into prehistoric textile production.

Evidence of Textile Production: The presence of a ball of yarn clearly indicates that the people living in this Neolithic settlement (often referred to as lakeside or pile-dwelling communities) were engaged in sophisticated textile crafts. They were processing fibers, spinning them into yarn, and likely weaving them into fabrics for clothing, nets, or other utilitarian purposes.

Neolithic Context: The date of 2700 BC places this artifact firmly within the late Neolithic period in Europe. This era saw significant advancements in agriculture, settled village life, and specialized crafts. Finds like this help reconstruct the daily lives and technological capabilities of these early agricultural societies.

Insights into Materials: Analyzing the fibers of the yarn (e.g., flax, wool, nettle) would provide direct evidence of the types of plants or animals exploited for textile production by these ancient communities.

Archaeological Significance: The region around Lake Bienne, particularly sites like Lüscherz, is well-known for its rich archaeological record of pile dwellings, which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. These sites have yielded an abundance of exceptionally preserved organic artifacts, offering a window into prehistoric European life.

The discovery of such a common, yet incredibly ancient, everyday object like a ball of yarn provides a tangible and intimate connection to the individuals who lived almost five millennia ago, highlighting their ingenuity and daily practices.

25/06/2025

Oh hi! Its just me again, taking advantage of a beautiful winter, sunny afternoon, to show you THIS!
I AM IN LOVE with this yarn colourway🖤💜🩷🧡💛.
This humble little hexagon cardi looks so good with the magenta top underneath.
I think I definitely need to make matching skirt and add some embellishments.

But should the skirt be the same yarn as the top or as the cardi???
OR DO I MAKE BOTH?